It is a slice of life, illuminated by those flashes of rich detail by which McCarey so often makes beauty out of the commonplace.

Paramount may have made a more appealing, more tenderly human and amusing picture than "Going My Way," during its many years of film-making, but if so, I have missed it.

It offers, in the performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen.

Christopher Lloyd croons about this musical dramedy starring Bing Crosby as a change agent priest.